mythomane
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪθəˌmeɪn/, /ˈmɪθəʊˌmeɪn/
Noun
mythomane (plural mythomanes)
- Someone who suffers from mythomania.
- 2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384:
- Maybe because I was working on the programmes at the same time, I found myself thinking about parallels between Jimmy Savile and L. Ron Hubbard. Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.
Synonyms
References
- “mythomane, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tɔ.man/
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Related terms
Descendants
- → Italian: mitomane
- → Greek: μυθομανής (mythomanís)
Further reading
- “mythomane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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